Word: vigilancy
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Approximately 30 to 40 students gathered on the steps of Widener Library last night to take part in the third annual Columbus Day Vigil...
...think this is the first year that we tried to officially create [the vigil] so we got a lot more objection from the administration," said Joanne M. Kane '00, a member of the Native American Program...
...Within 25 years of Columbus' first landing, several million Taino Indians were killed on the island of Hispaniola. Within a century, the entire race had been exterminated," read one of the flyers passed out at the vigil...
...strikingly beautiful--and almost painfully soft-spoken. But when the 23-year-old takes to stages around the U.S., she transforms herself into a firebrand for African democracy. In the past month alone, she's spoken at the Mobil shareholders' meeting, lectured to black church leaders and led a vigil in front of the White House--all with the aim of raising U.S. support for the Nigerian pro-democracy movement. She's even struggling to fund her own foundation, the Kudirat Institute for Nigerian Democracy. With the unexpected death of Abacha last week, Abiola believes her message is more urgent...
...they will not soon forget what happened that night in 1989. Images of what the Chinese government ordered upon its own people were still vivid in their minds as they made it through the change of sovereignty eight years later. The official tokens given out at the June 4 vigil offer a solution to worries that rallies of this sort might not be allowed in the future...